The emoji 🤮 face throwing up expresses the nausea and the disgust the most complete. It is used to indicate a true physical discomfort or an immediate aversion to a person, behavior, or food that is repulsive.
Depending on the context, its meaning shifts from a symptom of illness (flu, food poisoning, hangover) to simply disgust morale.
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Vomiting face smiley: its meaning and use
L'emoji of a face throwing up 🤮 belongs to the category Smileys and emotions, in the subcategory Pained expression.
Its code unicode The official one is U+1F922, under the English name Face Vomiting. It was added to Emoji 5.0 in 2017, and then approved as part of the standard Unicode 10.0.
Its meaning
This emoji shows a face with squinted eyes and with a haggard look. Her mouth expels a liquid green, suggesting a mixture of bile and food.
It most often means a feeling of nausea or physical discomfort. After an unpleasant event, it can also indicate a psychological distress : You feel sick or completely disgusted.
Not to be confused with the sickening face 🤢 (code U+1F92E), a green face that feels nauseous but isn't vomiting yet. In short: 🤢 signals nausea, 🤮 indicates it has passed.
Its use
In its literal sense, it refers to a physical problem: a stomach flu, a food poisoning, or a hangover from drinking too much. Along the same lines, you can pair it with the emoji 🤧 when you're really sick, or when the emoji 🤒 to indicate a fever.
Most of the time, it's used figuratively. In that case, it conveys a extreme aversion toward a person, behavior, or situation that you immediately reject. For example, you can pair it with the insect emoji 🐛 to express your visual disgust.
Send 🤢 and 🤮 together if you're not feeling well and need medical attention or need to go home.
Other names for the vomiting smiley
Its official name in English is Face Vomiting. In French, we say a face that's throwing up, but there are plenty of other ways to refer to it depending on the context:
- Smiley Throwing Up
- A smiley face that makes you sick to your stomach
- Smiley throwing up
- Smiley Throwing Up
- Smiley Throwing Up
If you want to embed it in a page or copy it quickly, here are the code snippets:
- Unicode code point: U+1F922
- UTF-8 encoding: F0 9F A4 A2
Its appearance varies by platform. The rendering of the yellow face that spews out a torrent green is a little different in Apple, Google (Android), Microsoft (Windows), Samsung, Twitter and Facebook.
On some systems, the display has a reddish tint; on others, the tint is less noticeable. The meaning remains the same everywhere: a strong feeling of disgust or nausea.
Examples of how to use the vomiting smiley
The 🤮 emoji slips into a message to indicate a utter disgust or a real nausea. Here are some concrete examples:
- «That makes me sick 🤮»
- «It's sickening 🤮»
- «That's disgusting 🤮»
- «That makes me sick 🤮»
- «The first time I tasted this goat cheese, I almost threw up 🤮»
- «I think I'm going to be sick 🤮»
- «I hate snakes 🤮»
the nauseating face 🤢 indicates a milder discomfort, a queasiness before complete rejection. You use it when you're fed up, but not necessarily to the point of feeling sick:
- «Just the smell makes me feel sick 🤢»
- «I ate too much, I feel sick 🤢»
- «That joke is in poor taste 🤢»
In practice, many people send both emojis together. 🤢 conveys a feeling of disgust, and 🤮 marks the end of the message. You go from malaise at the’utter disgust two characters.
These emojis are also used for second degree : They're used to react ironically to a situation that we find morally or socially repugnant—not just physically. In this case, also consider the emoji 😖 to express inner distress, or to the emoji 😷 to let someone know that you're feeling really bad.
Popularity index of this smiley over the years
The popularity of the’emoji of a face throwing up has continued to rise since its arrival.
It has been approved by the consortium unicode in 2017 (standard Emoji 5.0, Unicode 10.0), along with the "I'm feeling sick" face 🤢. It's all over social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, especially around 2020, driven by publications related to disgust and illness.
To take the expression of this unease even further, you can also explore the emoji 🥵, which conveys a very different kind of intense warmth or discomfort.
To find this emoji on your keyboard, type the following keywords: a face that's throwing up, vomit, sick, to vomit Where nausea. Then, all you have to do is copy and paste it to use it anywhere.
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